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submitted 1 month ago by to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
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[–] 12 points 1 month ago

It can be a perfectly sunny day and suddenly I’m praying for no lightning strikes that could cause a power surge.

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    [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    My favorite feature on my motherboard is a failover BIOS switch. So if something corrupts the BIOS, you just flip the switch and it switches to a second, factory default BIOS. Really made BIOS updates less stressful.

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    [–] 8 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Amateurs

    TitleServer bios of one of the cheapest manufacturers with the worst support. Probably a mission critical production server.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    And you have to have a license to unlock that capability. I just bought one of these boards in June (used) and once I cracked the license, I had to update the IPMI before I could update the bios. This was after two failed bios flashes from a Lenovo server that it was replacing, so I wasn't exactly excited for this process, but hey, it didn't kill the board so it's better in my book than MSI (also killed a board a decade ago) and Lenovo.

    All three dead boards had a ups, and I followed the instructions to the letter. Both companies are blacklisted for me.

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    • [–] 5 points 1 month ago*

    I raise re-LUKS'ing an existing partition

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    [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    ArieForce one!

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